One of the big promises of the internet is that it will allow fairer better deals for recording artists. Says a record exec: “Cathartic as it is to vent at record companies and carry the banner for artist empowerment, it seems to me that many of the attacks on the inequitable sharing of the pie have been overstated. The problems most artists have with record companies (and there are many legitimate problems, don’t get me wrong) have nothing to do with how the money is divided up, so long as we are talking about acts that actually sell enough records.” – Inside.com